George Palmer

HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME AN AIRLINE CAPTAIN?HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?HOW MUCH TRAINING DOES IT TAKE?The journey to become an Airline Captain is not easy and not without risk - both physically and financially.It takes many years to qualify for the coveted 'left seat' of a commercial airliner. PILOT shows one pilot's path to a successful career, despite the difficulties and pitfalls along the way.PILOT examines in detail: various aircraft and their different handling qualitiesaviation terms and their definitionsthe Australian pilots' dispute in 1989simulator instructinglong-haul flying around the world.PILOT is not only the story of an individual pilot but a history of Australian aviation over the last 55 years.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Captain Sam Wilson-Carter figured the odds on her ship capturing the coveted Ney Award at five to one. After all, she had the best First Class Cook in the Navy and she'd collected some great junior cooks to back him up. Visitors to USS Michigan always left sated and envious. COMSUBPAC himself had developed a particular fondness for their pastries.She actually felt a tiny pang of remorse for the captain of the submarine they'd recently shellacked during an open-ocean exercise. The admiral had been so focused on their goodies during her post-victory dog and pony show, he'd almost totally ignored the lamentations and poor-mouthing of their opponent.Well, it was all history now anyway. Perhaps she had snookered the other boat unfairly, but it had taken some real work to do it Shanghaiing three women officers, snatching them right out of the Navy training pipeline It had been a masterstroke and they'd been her secret weapons. Yes, it had been a good year, for the boat, and for her. Her blessings had been many indeed, as her IS NOT EXCEEDED fitness report boldly stated. Even the delivery of her infant son had been glorious. But why on earth had the Navy sent her name to the President as the youngest rear admiral in the history of the Navy?

What could be so hard about the job anyway? Captain Sam Wilson-Carter had asked herself that question a thousand times over the past few years. And each time she'd asked it the answers had always come quickly: Well, the ultimate downside seems to be the imminent possibility of a slow, agonizingly-painful death at the hands of a jihadist with a crazed look in his eyes, a sharp object in his hand and a giant-sized chip on his shoulder. Or, I could end up front and center in the middle of a Capital Building hearing room with a bunch of snooty politicians raking me over the coals about something I either did or didn't do during the process of getting the job done. Yeah, that was the worst that could happen. The politicians. It just never seemed fair to her. They could always hide behind something while they got in their digs and tossed whatever aspersions their staffs could come up with. Anything was fair game for them in search of that half-million-vote soundbite. Anything to poke or prod the administration into revealing something that seemed shaky or underhanded. How many of them ever had to get up in the morning and actually do anything? When was the last time they'd had to justify their existences in front of anybody that counted? She shivered as she thought about it. You know what? Give me the jihadists any day.

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